Thus, as Ciftci (2012) notes, it is important to remember that that the higher level of education an individual has, the less likely he or she is to demonstrate Islamophobia or any other type of nationalist hatred. The "unprecedented levels" of Islamophobia in the UK following the terror attacks (Ciftci, 2012, p
There is also the threat of violent radicalism in other spheres, such as among animal rights activists, environmental activists, and other socio-anarchic groups which advocate the fall of government. Each of these groups represents a significant risk to the UK's social, political, and economic infrastructure in the 21st century (Forst, Greene, Lynch, 2011)
Education can proceed on a number of levels. For instance, with the threat of ISIS in recent years, Islamophobia has arisen in several sectors of UK society (Halliday, 1999)
The ceaseless coverage by mainstream media of all things terror-related (and the numerous networks devoted to supplying viewers with non-stop updates on "terror" threats emanating from both within the state and without) may well be categorized as hysterical if it were not for the fact that a great majority of the public appears to be desensitized to modern hysteria. What is the reality of "terrorism"? Dombrowsky's "view that disaster is not and never was a reality and that it is a word that describes something we perceive within the space and time we observe" may equally apply to a view of "terrorism" if we consider the fact that "terrorism" received a gigantic connotative meaning in the wake of 9/11 (Jigyasu, 2005, p
During The Troubles, the RUC's Special Branch served a significant role in assisting the State to overcome the obstacle of knowing who, where and what the IRA was targeting, who its volunteers were, and what they were coordinating. The method of intelligence utilized by the Special Branch and the State was best characterized by the use of "agents, informers and good old fashioned 'coppers' who knew their patch" (Kirk-Smith, Dingley, 2009, p
This system has created controversy among voices clamoring for privacy and personal rights. Thus, it is important to assess the benefits of such systems and to offer good practice recommendations for their usage (Moch, Poole, Chapple, Kitteringham, 2011)
In order to effect this mitigation, a good practice recommendation is for public education as to the role of surveillance and the reason for its usage. An informed public is a less hysterical public, and the less hysteria the less risk involved for all parties (Modood, 2007)
This same strategy is what needs to be utilized in the risk management profile for the UK against ISIS and other threats. Another challenge is the notion of "special interrogation techniques" which have been utilized as a method of gathering intelligence in the past but have in more recent times been viewed as "ineffective" in achieving any kind of decisive counter-strike initiative (Moran, 2010, p
It concludes with a summation of the assessment as well as recommendations for future initiation. Table of Contents Introduction 3 Contextual Assessment 4 Components of Risk Management 5 Understanding Terror 5 Challenges 7 Benefits of Good Practice 8 Conclusion 10 Recommendations 11 References 13 Risk Management of Terrorism in the UK Introduction The UK is under threat from both domestic and foreign terrorism (Wilkinson, 2007)
With the flood of refugees shaking nations in the EU to their very cores, a rising tide of nationalism is more and more apparent in every corner. How will the UK react? What should it do if the EU unravels? These questions must be asked in order to mitigate the after-effects of the terrorist threat that has now permeated the whole of the West if not the world (Zaeef, 2010)